Poland’s National Atomic Energy Agency Received Applications for SMRs Two applications have been submitted to Poland’s National Atomic Energy Agency (Państwowa Agencja Atomistyki, PAA) for the assessment of Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology. The National Atomic Energy Agency (PAA) said Orlen Synthos Green Energy and KGHM had both submitted application documents on 8 July. Orlen’s…
Applications Now Open For IAEA Marie Curie Fellowship Programme The application period for the IAEA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme (MSCFP) is now open. The deadline for applications is 30 September 2022. For more information on how to apply, please go to this page. Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme Launches The MSCFP aims to help increase the number of women in the nuclear…
UK Government Gives Green Light To Sizewell C Nuclear Project On 20 July 2022, the Sizewell C Project application has been granted development consent by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The application was submitted to the Planning Inspectorate for consideration by NNB Nuclear Generation (SZC) Limited on 27 May…
ENUSA Expands Its Cooperation Network To Brazil ENUSA (ENS Corporate Member), pursuing the objectives established in its Strategic Plan, continues to carry out commercial diversification and internationalisation actions. Last week, ENUSA received a delegation from the company Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB) at its facilities. A new framework of collaboration was discussed between the two companies,…
Westinghouse To Decommission Norway’s Research Reactors Westinghouse Electric Company (ENS Corporate Member) announced last week a major engineering contract with Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning (NND) to plan the decommissioning of the country’s two nuclear research reactors located in Halden and Kjeller. The three-year agreement includes options up to six years and is valued up to $100…
Framatome Awarded SFEN Prize For Technological Innovation The CRIL, the Framatome (ENS Corporate Member) CERCA Research and Innovation Laboratory received the SFEN Prize for Technological Innovation for the world’s first uranium-molybdenum and uranium-silicon objects using 3D printing technology. This innovation enables the development and production of uranium metal fuel plates for research reactors and irradiation…
NRG Starts Irradiating Nuclear Reactor Containment Tubes For EDF In December 2020 EDF (Électricité de France) and NRG (both ENS Corporate Members) have started a cooperation on the irradiation of containment tubes. The purpose of the irradiation is to gain knowledge on the behavior of containment tubes under operating conditions that are to be considered…
New Milestone Achieved In The Slovak Decommissioning Project European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced further progress in the Slovak nuclear decommissioning plan, as two Soviet-era reactors at the Bohunice nuclear power plant have been fully dismantled and the components decontaminated for safe storage or recycling. The work was funded through the Bohunice International…
Westinghouse And EDF To Cooperate On EnCore® ATF Technology Westinghouse Electric Company announced a partnership with EDF (both ENS Corporate Members) to explore the functionalities of Westinghouse’s EnCore® enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) technology. Westinghouse will study its EnCore fuel in an EDF reactor for potential deployment across the EDF nuclear fleet after 2030. This…
The New PSI Pharmaceutical Laboratory Is Ready For Production Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI, ENS Corporate Member) announced that its new pharmaceutical laboratory for the manufacture of radiopharmaceuticals is ready for production, accordingly to the operating licence granted by the Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products (Swissmedic). For more than 20 years, in collaboration with ETH Zurich,…